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    Crimea circa 2014 disagrees

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      Russia circa 2024 disagrees because they wanted it to sound voluntary. News went with it because annex is technically correct in the close by/far away context, but not the whole colonialism is always by force context.

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        News went with it

        Lexicon > dictionary. See: Literally.